“Ask a High-School Student Who Didn’t Do the Required Reading”

A funny Onion article, HERE.

Egypt Presidential Poll

You can’t believe how weird it is to see something like this in Ahram Online. An Egyptian Presidential poll? It’s still early, but here are the results of their unscientific online poll:

Mohamed El-Baradei (37.4 %)
Amr Moussa (28.74 %)
Other (14.57 %)
Hisham El-Bastawissy (8.27 %)
Ayman Nour (5.12 %)
Won’t vote (4.33 %)
Hamdin Sabahi (1.57 %)

The conventional wisdom was that ElBaradei’s star had fallen somewhat during the revolution, but he still has a certain amount of robust public support. Ayman Nour has much less than I expected.

But I suspect the real winner could be someone not even on the list at the moment.

TED Talk on the Middle East

This link was sent to me and I haven’t had time to watch the video yet, but it sounds like it might be of interest, given the topic and the speaker.

TEDTalks : Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world – Wadah Khanfar (2011)
via TEDTalks (video) on 3/2/11

As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their houses and ask for change.